About Master Charles

Master Dingman is a 7th Degree Black Belt, certified as a Master Instructor and International Referee by the World Taekwondo Federation (Kukkiwon) and the United States Olympic Committee with 38 years teaching experience. Master Dingman holds a BA Degree in Sociology from Northwestern State University with post-graduate studies in Education and Counseling from Louisiana State University.

Founder of the Charles Dingman School of Taekwondo, he also founded and has previously served as coach and consultant to the Louisiana State University Taekwondo Club, where he has trained both male and female national collegiate champions. In 1984, he began the Louisiana AAU Senior and Junior Olympic Taekwondo program and trained several national gold medalists. Master Dingman was awarded the National Taekwondo Collegiate Coach of the Year Award and the National President’s Award for outstanding service in the development of Taekwondo. Master Dingman has worked with inner city youth, patients with eating disorders and alcohol or drug addictions and the LSU Department of Continuing Education. He has been a Juvenile Probation Officer with the Baton Rouge Family Court, a counselor for the Baton Rouge Mental Health Center and Children’s Services. In 2000, Master Dingman was a US Delegate for Taekwondo to the Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. Master Dingman is currently serving as Louisiana State President of the United States Taekwondo Committee.

In 2008, Master Dingman opened a new, expanded training dojang in the Ketchum Fitness Building, coached a medalist at the National Junior Olympics in Detroit and traveled on a ten day tour of the Kukkiwon in Seoul, Korea as part of the first ever US Delegation of Grandmasters and Masters. He also received a Kukkiwon citation for lifetime accomplishments in Taekwondo while at the first  Hanmadang event in Los Angeles, CA.